When gemologist Ruby Jones is mistaken by a ruthless businessman as a diamond thief, there's only one man she can turn to. Ex-special ops solider turned private security agent, Jake Forrester. But Jake is moving interstate, and the last thing he wants is a complication in the form of a sexy woman in trouble. The sooner he can find the famous Florentine diamond, the better. Or so he thought.

The power to control fire, a family secret, an unlikely ally and a forbidden love. For Callie Demasi, life is no longer what it seemed. She never imagined in a million years that at the start of her senior year she'd be fighting for her life, or the life of her best friend Zilla. Will her newfound powers be strong enough to save them?

From astonishing worlds of fantasy, aliens, and magic, we've collected tales since the dawn of Creation. Repository stories are now available in human languages for the first time.
Alien Legends: A Selection from the Repository of Imagination collects 32 separate stories suitable for young humans aged 11-15 years, and for older readers whose sense of wonder is still functional.

John Brooks is a brilliant young lawyer working hard, but not getting much notice. His friends believe that he needs one big case to show off his talents. Defending Hal Boyd, known as the Butcher of Belhaven, on arson and four murder charges, looks like that big case as the world media, hungry to fill 24 hours a day of non-stop news coverages on Jackson, Mississippi.

Becca has given her love for Ryan to God.
After loving Ryan Webster since she was a child, Becca Flinders has at last accepted that he is not God’s will for her life. From now on, she decides, she will say yes to whatever God sends into her life, and she will stop longing for what she cannot have.

Passion, lost treasure and deadly secrets in the heart of the Sahara…
Arrogant, selfish and dangerous, Lucas Saintclair is everything Harriet Montague dislikes in a man. He is also the best guide in the whole of the Barbary States, the only man who can rescue her archaeologist father from the gang of Tuareg fighters that has kidnapped him.

Notorious juvenile hacker Nicholas Anthony has left his criminal past behind and is grateful for his second chance at life as a police detective. When a string of unsolved murders all lead back to a social networking Web site, he is the obvious choice to lead the investigation.

Every day a young woman enters the same restaurant at lunchtime, orders the same meal and the same desserts and coffee. She eats her salad, pockets the roll and stares at her two desserts, but she never eats them nor drinks the coffee. She meets a man and together they helps each other to face their pasts, to enjoy the present and to create a new future.

It’s the summer of 1991, eight months after the Berlin Wall fell. Professor Auturo Martinelli, a Nobel Prize recipient is on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer, but instead he opened a Pandora’s Box of something more disparaging than either the atomic or nuclear bombs.

A young London lawyer inherits a Pharaoh’s ring from an adventurous uncle with a warning that it would be dangerous to disclose possession to anyone. Nearly thirty years later he and his wife decide to follow up on the rings authenticity by visiting Egypt, the Holy Land and France. They discover there are three such rings with baffling inscriptions on them that, unknown to them if deciphered, coul

17 year old Jedidiah was born with a gruesome deformity that causes him to drag his foot. He embraces the nickname Dragonfoot and sets his goal to become a champion skateboarder, but amputation, a mission trip to Peru, and two girls that God puts in his path challenge his dream.

Haunted by guilt, Australian Wes Cogan sets up a sheep ranch in Idaho. He contracts help to protect his flock from predators, but he didn’t expect a woman. Lindsey McCormick, with her livestock protection dogs, expects it to be no different from other contracts - until she meets Wes. A drought erupts in wildfires, and wolves and a cougar are desperate. But a two-legged predator is after Lindsey...

The Sutra of Reverse Possession is a novel of non-idiomatic improvisation. People routinely explore a variety of peculiar avenues, many of which are spiritual in nature, in the pursuit of purpose and meaning in their lives. One should therefore not be taken completely by surprise that Poppy Hortie too opted to invite spirits inside himself in his goal of becoming a better husband and father.

I Saw Blood and then Everything Went Black contains sixteen visions of the future experienced during periods of blackout. Bearing titles such as Blackhole, Blackjack, Blackstrap, Blackeye, Blackmarket and Blacksheep, the stories straddle fantasy and science fiction.

Arbitrary Nonsense is a surreal odyssey of the mind. A dark comedy in search of truth in an absurd universe. A dystopian fable of a clockwork future. They say you can never step in the same river twice, and the same goes for skinny-dipping in the collective unconscious. It is alive. And for the dreamers and the dreamed, nothing is more dangerous...

An international thriller where secrets from the past threaten the future. When Leon Garrick negotiates a ransom, he does not know his client harbors a deadly secret: a program to develop racially targeted viruses. From the North of Spain to the heart of Washington, the characters are united by the common goal of justice, but face an enemy who cannot let the secret be revealed.

A tale of love. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever thought of dating, loving and marrying a woman of a different race. In the high society he lives in, no one would have ever thought it could have been possible, but it was. He was completely and utterly in love with her at first sight and she on the other hand was unquestionable and totally surprised that she too could love another....

What would you do if someone offered you the chance to travel through a wormhole? After surviving the harrowing rescue mission that kicked off their entry into the Nanotech Coalition Defense Corp’s Guardian program, twins Lilia and Kevin Strong are about to find out. Accepting this offer will launch them into utter chaos—and leave their lives forever changed.